hillcountrymagic
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Now You See It... Magic with a New Twist (1946), written and illustrated by amateur magician and aerospace engineer John Goodrum, was published by Didier Publishers in New York. The 149-page hardcover acts as an accessible, beginner-to-intermediate guide to sleight-of-hand and parlor magic.
Content Summary
The book provides clear explanations accompanied by the author's own illustrations, breaking down routines across several classic branches of magic:
Close-Up & Pocket Magic: Impromptu tricks using everyday pocket items, including torn-and-restored buttons, vanishing matches, coin penetrations, and breaking a pencil with a dollar bill.
Table & Dinner Magic ("Magic for Dessert"): Routines suitable for social settings, such as transferring initial marks from a sugar cube to a spectator's hand, transposing salt and pepper shakers, and finding a coin inside a dinner roll.
Sleight & Manipulation Basics: Fundamental mechanics for coin false transfers (French Drop, Squeeze Vanish), ball palming, and sequential thimble routines.
Card Control & Effects: Injog controls, peeks, forces, false cuts/shuffles, alongside classic routines like the airborne card, acrobatic cards, and a rising card from a glass.
Silk, Mentalism & Platform Effects: Silk productions and transpositions, billet reading, book tests, living-and-dead tests, bill in lemon, cut-and-restored rope, and the suspending vase.
Showmanship & Program Planning: Advice on staging, curtain control, and building tailored performance routines for mixed club audiences, men's groups, or large stage settings.
